GitHub has announced several improvements to its Sponsors program including sponsors-only repositories, a feature that will give developers more options for engaging with their sponsors. 

In its new rankings of Best Jobs, Glassdoor put Enterprise Architect top of its list for the USA and Java Developer top in the UK.

The Swift community has announced the formation of a workgroup the aim of which is to advance the interoperability support between Swift, the language originally developed by Apple as an alternative language to Objective C, and C++. 

The 2022 Season of Docs has been announced. The project, which is supported by Google, aims to bring open source organizations and technical writers together. Participating projects receive funds to create, improve, or expand their documentation, while Google benefits by increased knowledge of effective metrics for evaluating open source documentation.

The Linux Foundation has three new courses focused on developing open source software with Linux and Git on the edX platform. Take all three to earn a Professional Certificate.

Groovy 4 has been released with improvements including a new query language and support for switch expressions. The developers describe it as being designed for JDK8+ with much improved JPMS support. 

Despite retaining "his" childlike appearance, at 18 NAO is almost a grown up. A recent paper looks at a decade's worth of Human-NAO Interaction Research which revealed that more than 13,000 NAO robots are used in more than 70 countries around the world.

Raspberry Pi has been trialing a beta of the 64-bit version of Pi OS for over a year. Now it's ready to make the transition to a fully supported OS option on 64-bit Pi hardware, including the Pi 3, Pi 4 and Pi Zero 2 W.

Google is increasing its support for using Android on tablets and foldable devices, with an imminent update to the developer preview of Android 12 along with moves to create an Android Tablet group within Google. 

DeepMind has developed an AI capable of solving some competitive programming problems. When tried out on recent CodeForces contests AlphaCode achieved a rank within the top 54% of participants.

The Jetpack Window Manager library is now available as a stable 1.0 release. The library gives application developers the means to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. It provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later.